9 Foods To Avoid If Your Are Overweight With High Blood Pressure?

If you are overweight and you have high blood pressure you need to take extra care with your health. View the tips below to see 9 foods to avoid for overweight people with high blood pressure.

TIP 1 – RED MEAT

The first food is red meat. You need to avoid this as it is full of saturated fat, cholesterol and more that are bad for your health. It causes increase in cholesterol as well as blood pressure levels and increases your risk for heart disease. As an overweight person this is worse for you as red meat takes longer to digest and by the time it finishes digesting, it is a surplus and is stored as fat mostly in the middle region as belly fat which can cause heart disease.

TIP 2 – CHIPS

Chips is what we call a double edge sword as it is extremely bad for your health especially if you are overweight with high blood pressure. It has a high fat content which help you to pack on the weight much faster than you need to. It has low nutritional value meaning it doesn’t really help your body at all. It is loaded with sodium as chips without salt doesn’t taste complete. It is fried in more fat which is dangerous for the heart and your blood pressure. This should be removed from your meal immediately as it can increase your risk of cardiovascular disease as well as heart disease.

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TIP 4 – PROCESSED MEAT

The fourth food is processed meat. All forms of processed meat such as burgers, sausages, ham, salami etc, are all high in sodium (Salt) content. Salt is a critical ingredient for preservation and is dangerous to people with high blood pressure. Also processed meats contain a lot of fat which is bad for an overweight person as it increased your risk of becoming obese which comes with dangerous complications.

TIP 5 – ALCOHOL

The fifth is Alcohol. As an overweight person who is suffering from high blood pressure, alcohol is dangerous to your health more than a regular sized individual. When we drink alcohol it is seen as a source of energy for the body so the body uses it first before using the food you have eaten or sugary drinks you may have drank. The more alcohol the more you takes, the more the body converts it to energy. Everything else you eat or drink then gets stored as fat for later use, in places you don’t like for example, the stomach. In addition to fat adversely affecting your blood pressure, drinking high quantities of alcohol directly increases your blood pressure to abnormal levels.

TIP 6 – CHICKEN SKIN

The next food is Chicken skin. Chicken skin is high in saturated fat which is bad for an overweight person as well as for someone with high blood pressure. Double this with our means of preparing skin in Africa, which usually involves a lot of oil and the chicken skin becomes a dangerous health hazard. Chicken skin should be removed after the chicken is prepared as it helps to trap in the chicken which may be boiled or fried away during preparation.

TIP 7 – WHOLE MILK

Whole milk or full cream milk such as Nido or Peak is bad for you if you are overweight and you have high blood pressure. While non-fat milk or skimmed milk is okay for you, full cream milk contains high amounts of saturated fat which can negatively affect your blood pressure as it builds up in the body as bad cholesterol which is bad for the heart. It also stores as fat putting you at double risk of heart disease.

TIP 8 – SUGAR

What people don’t realize about sugar is that it is contained in most of the food we eat. Carbohydrates convert to sugar in the system as well as other food groups. Therefore, any additional sugar taken with food is not helping your situation if you are overweight and if you have high blood pressure. Also eating additional sugar can increase your blood pressure as well as store as fat in your body causing you to gain weight. It also promotes rapid and dangerous growth of these fat cell around vital internal organs in the body triggering the terrible complications of obesity and high blood pressure.

TIP 9 – CANNED TOMATO

While tomato itself is not bad for high blood pressure, canned / tin tomatoes are very bad for overweight people with high blood pressure and they contain a high amount of fructose and sugar content. When measured, a cup of tomato sauce can add well over 20 grams of sugar. And as we explained earlier sugar is very bad for overweight people with high blood pressure. In addition to reasons mentioned earlier, sugar also decreases sensitivity to insulin and can trigger adult onset diabetes.

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